Show PH PHONOGRAPH ONO GRAPH I IS 15 GRAUN SAYS I MR LAUDER When I 1 was across In France seeing the boys said ild Harry Lauder I 1 often thanked the inventor of the talking machIne machine machine ma ma- chine for not having lived In vain vain- vainA A record out yonder where the mud Is IsI I much deeper than even cven in the streets of dea auld Glasca on the worst winter da day a record brings back the sniff 0 o the hills the wee Ingle and days o o. auld lang What an syne sync Its It's graun Im I'm ye invention Voices o o. loved ones always wi yc ye o the the the mountain mountain mountain moun moun- tain ta-in and glen to inspire ye e to fill your heart and strengthen your our arm Aye the talking machine is a thinking machine machine machine ma ma- chine and the thoughts that it inspires are pleasant thoughts thoughts the the thoughts o o hame and the dear ones left len behind I Such Is Harry Lauders Lauder's description of music among the men at the front in an Interview with the London Record Phone I shortly after his return from lila his recent visit to te the western front Ill tell ye yea I a wee story he proceeded in his own I and inimitable way an its it's mo mo moa a up made-up yin min mm Im I'm telling ye This I Is a story of how a gramophone backed up the gallant soldiers o a gallant Scottish Scottish Scottish Scot Scot- I tish regiment The days day's duties had been long and arduous and for hours and I hours the Jocks had been under a fierce bombardment bombardment a rest and I a halt Th Then n day pave gave way to night Shells were continually bursting Lazy Whistling Willies and a the rt rest resto st sto o 0 the devils devil's messengers Now the rain came on Sheets and sheets heets o o 0 it rain it-rain rain that looked as If it never would stop and made one wonder where It all came from Even the trenches were flooded That night passed and at dawn the Germans were scattered and ne new positions were taken But still it rained Harry at this stage quietly chuckled puffed away at his pipe and went on Several hours later hater the boys were re relieved e- e and tramped miles back to their rest camp camp amid amid mud to the knees all ail the road and with the water streaming down their necks and squelching in their boots It was evening before they arrived at the place where warm tea warm clothing and anda a good dry bed awaited them but man even een before a helmet was doffed one o o. othe othe I the Jocks made for the company gramophone gramo gramo- phone I lie He e slipped on a record wound up the machine and started it a And the discomforts of the time past thirty-six thirty I hours were sent Into oblivion when the machine n-machine calmly churned out When You I Come to the End of a Perfect Day |